Hale

“Have you thought about where you want to go on vacation?” he asks.

I roll over on my side and stare at the picture of the four of us on our last vacation. We went on our annual trip to Lake of the Ozarks. Mom and I are both wearing big sunglasses and even bigger hats. Dad and Hudson wear matching grins as they hold up their fish they’d caught. It’s one of my most favorite places. “To our usual cabin.”

“I figured you’d say that. A couple more weeks and we’ll get to spend all the time in the world together.”

my own. He knows exactly how to touch me to make it happen so quickly.

“Fuck, baby, I miss you so goddamned much already. This is torture,” he hisses.

Tears burn at my eyes. “I miss you too.” My fingers fumble at my clit, but it’s no use. It’s not the same. He grunts and then lets out a ragged sigh as he comes. The sounds coming from him lack their usual passion.

“It’s no comparison to the real thing,” he utters.

“What the fuck, man? Coach cancels practice and you have phone sex with your girlfriend? Hi, Amy,” his friend Nick says in the background.

A spike of jealousy flits through me, but it’s better for him to think that way. Hudson plays along with it.

“One day, when you find the girl of your dreams, you’ll understand,” Hudson grumbles at him.

“I was going to ask you if you wanted to go out tonight, but it looks like you have your hands full. Literally. I’ll leave you and Amy alone.”

“Knock next time, asshole,” Hudson says with a laugh seconds before the door slams in the background. “Sorry about that. You didn’t come.”

I slide my hand out of my shorts. “I will when I see you next. Only you can make me come so hard I see stars. I’m not as good at it as you.”

How was your appointment?” he asks, his voice deeper sounding on the phone than in real life.

“Fine. He says I’m doing better. I didn’t tell him why.”

He chuckles. “I don’t think he would have taken that news very well.”

“How did class go? Did you even study for your finals?” I question, knowing damn well he didn’t crack open a book while visiting me